(twin son) Sturgeon

William married Mary Anne "Nona" Stricker on 17 Sep 1925. Mary (daughter of Henry John Stricker, Sr and Runie Mable Moore) was born on 17 May 1905 in Waco, McLennan Co, Texas; died in 2006 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mary Anne Stricker Sturgeon's husband died in 1950 of leukemia, leaving her with 3 minor daughters. She and her husband both taught at a women's college in suburban Philadelphia, and she continued to teach there until sometime in the 1970s. Nona, as we called Mary, lived to 2006--101 years old!
Paula Deming

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Central Christian Church, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas
• Residence: 1894, 625 South 9th, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas
• Residence: 1900, Clay btw Plum & Spring, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas; to 1901
• Census: 16 Jun 1900, Waco (Precinct 1), McLennan Co, Texas
• Census: 29 Apr 1910, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas
• Census: 27 Jan 1920, McLennan Co, Texas
• Census: 1930, 1620 North 15th St., Waco, McLennan Co, Texas; D.C.

Notes:

family story from Kris Banvard, Henry's brother "Herman lived in Arlington, Texas in a big two story house. He enticed his brother, Henry, to come to Arlington and open a fruit store/newsstand. Henry went broke in less than a year and moved back to Waco."

also, told of Henry John Stricker, Sr.:
He was a cabinet maker and then was part owner of a furniture store. He had to quit school at age 9 to to to wrk when his father died. In 1899 he was making $9 per week at Mailander's Furniture Store in Waco. After 1912 he worked as a cabinet maker for Stratton Furniture Company (they may have taken over from Mailander). He became a shipping clerk, then a chief salesman. By about 1919, he was a partner, buying into the store at $10 per week."


Religion:
Very active in the church, he was an elder and was featured in the 4 Mar 1928 edition of The Lookout, Magazine of Christian Education, published in Cincinnati, for the boys' class he taught at Central Christian. The story is headlined "Thoe Old Gang o' Mine."
"Henry Stricker, Sr., of Waco, Texas, thinks of the class of boys he teaches at Central Christian Church as "that old gang o' mine." An unusual spirit of comradeship exists between him and all the boys of the group. He spends much time and energy for the class and enjoys the activities and associations just as much as the do the boys..."


Residence:
Stricker Annie B (wid W.), r 625 S 9th
Stricker Henry J., appc upholsterer, h. Mrs. A.B. Stricker.
Stricker Herman, trav slsmn, h. Mrs. Annie B. Stricker
Stricker Peter W., appc plumber J.S. Brazelton & Co, h Mrs. A.B. Stricker
Stricker Walter W., clk John Cummins, h. Mrs. A.B. Stricker.
625 South 9th, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas

Residence:
Stricker Henry J., wks (works) compress, r. ns (north side) Clay bt (between) Plum, Spring, E. Waco.

Census:
Stricker Henry J head Jan 1886 20 married 1 yr
TX Germany Germany ?nnchemical
Runie wife May 1881 19 m 1 yr TX Georgia Missouri
Walter W son Jan 1890 9 Texas Texas Texas

Census:
Henry J Stricker 29 m 10 yrs cabinet maker
Runie Stricker 28 4 births 3 living
Henry Stricker 6 1904 son
Mary Stricker 4 1906 dau
Eugene Stricker 2 1908 son
Mary M Moore 66 1844 mother in law widowed MO KY MO


Census:
Stricker, Henry J b 1880 age 40 TX self, married Germany, Germany
Henry J age 1904 16 Texas
Mary A 1906 14 Texas
Eugene M, 1909, 11 Texas
Mary M Stricker (Moore) 76

Died:
d.c. Henry J. Stricker Sr., age 50, lived in city 45 years.
residence 1620 North 15th st.
furniture dealer, Stratton-Stricker Company
born in Texas; died of leukemia, at home at 4:30 a.m.
father Werner Stricker, Germany
mother, Annie Barbara Franz, Germany
informant, Mrs. Runie Stricker, Waco, Texas

note from Kris Banvard:
He died of Leukemia. The obit says he had been ill about two years and been confined to his home for two weeks. It is said he was too weak to attend his mother's funeral; she died a few weeks before he did. Henry is listed as the 'informant' on Anna Barbara's death certificate. I don't know whether that meant he felt strong enough to go down there or did it over the phone or through a proxy.

Henry married Runie Mable Moore on 10 May 1899 in Marlin, Falls Co, Texas. Runie (daughter of William Calhoun Moore and Mary Madden Jones) was born on 30 May 1881 in Battle, McLennan Co, Texas; died on 06 Oct 1968 in Waco, McLennan Co, Texas; was buried on 09 Oct 1968 in Oakwood Cemetery, Waco, McLennan County, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1900, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas; moved to
• Census: 16 Jun 1900, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas
• Census: 17 Jan 1920, Waco (Ward 6), McLennan Co, Texas
• Residence: Dec 1930, 1620 North 15th St., Waco, McLennan Co, Texas; husband's D.C.
• Residence: 1968, 1625 Wooded Acres, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas; D.C.

Notes:

Family info is that Runie Mabel Moore had about three years of education when she left school altogether but was said to have about a seventh grade education when she left school. She was a telephone operator for Waco Telephone Company before her marriage when there were about 200 lines and the operator had to remember all the numbers. She liked to tell about that. Mary Banvard says, "Hello, operator, get me the Jones." None of that, "What number, please?" I remember as a child."

Residence:
Calculated on D.C. which stated she had lived in Waco 68 yrs, in 1968.

Census:
Henry J Stricker head Jan 1860 20 m 1 yr TX Germany Germany
Runie wife May 1881 19 1 birth 1 living Texas GA MS
Walter W son Jan 1891 9 [sic] Texas Texas

Census:
17 Jan 1920
Henry J Stricker 40 Texas Germany Germany merchant furniture
Bunie M Stricker 38 [37] 1902 Texas Georgia Missouri
Henry J Stricker 16 1904
Mary A Stricker 14 [17] 1906
Eugene M Stricker 11 1909
Mary M Stricker 76 1844 wid Missouri Kentucky Kentucky

Died:
d.c. Runie Mable Stricker, age 87, widowed, residence, 1625 Wooded Acres, Waco; lived in Waco 68 yrs.
died at The Regis hosp, 400 Austin Ave, Waco
father William Moore; mother Mary Madden Jones
informant H.J. Stricker, Jr.

Notes:

Married:
Texas Marriages 1873-1973

from the notes of Kris Banvard,
"Their marriage license was obtained in McLennan county, but they were married in in Marlin, Falls County. They were married at 2:00 p.m. at the home of Mrs. H.G. Houghton, aunt of the bride. According to the newspaper clipping I have announcing it, the wedding 'will be a quiet affair, only relatives and a few friends being expected.' The couple will live in Waco, the clipping said, "Mr. Stricker having prepared a home for his bride in that city."

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 9 Mar 1858, "The Laura," Bremen, Germany; New York, New York
• Military: Between 18 Apr 1866 and 19 Apr 1869, Texas
• Census: 28 Aug 1870, Robertson Co (Precinct 1), Texas
• Census: 1880, Robertson Co, Texas
• Residence: 1890, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas

Notes:

Immigration:
This is the translation Ancestry did of the info on the page. (I don't know what Archive name and archive collection means)
Name: Werner Stricker
Birth year:1843
Birth place: Vegesack
residence: Vegesack
date mustered: 9 Mrz (Mar) 1858

Ship: Laura
Port of Departure: Bremen
Destination: New York, New York
Archive Name: Bremen Staatsarchiv
Archive collection: 4,24-E.7 Musterungslisten der Schiffe, geführt vom Bremer Wasserschout, 1837 Juli- 1873 Mai

Military:
Register of Enlistments - United States Army

Werner Stricker,
Enlisted Apr 19 1866
born Bremen Germany
age 23
clerk
blue eyes
light hair
light complexion
height 5 feet 6 inches
13 Infantry
Discharg'd Apr 19 1869 at Fort Sully

Census:
residence 135
Franz, Bettie 48 housekeeper, 500 Baden
father and mother of foreign born checked
Franz, Anna B. 10 1860 Baden
Franz, Peter 8 1862 Texas

residence 196
Stucker, Warner 25 1845 Bremen
Stephenson, Andrew 22 1848 London

(Ancestry translated Franz as Frank)

Census:
W. Stricker 37 merchant Prussia Prussia Prussia
A.B. Stricker 26 Prussia Prussia Prussia
H. Stricker 4 daughter Texas
Walter Stricker 2 Texas
Henry Stricker 5m Texas
Barbara Franz 53 mother in law Prussia Prussia Prussia
Peter Franz 18 bro in law Texas Prussia Prussia Prussia
Jacob Kling 45 boarder baker Alsces Alsces Alsces
M. Klein 27 boarder clerk in store Prussia Prussia Prussia


Residence:
Name: Walter Stricker
Location 2: Mrs. A. B. Stricker
Business Name: R. H. Gray
Occupation: driver
Year: 1890, 1891
City: Waco
State: TX

----------

Name: Walter W. Stricker
Location 2: Mrs. Anna B. Stricker
Business Name: I. Loewenstein
Occupation: clerk
Year: 1892, 1893
City: Waco
State: TX


Died:
As recorded in the journal called "Texas Girlhood," written by Mary Ann "Nona" Stricker, his granddaughter, "When Papa was but nine years old, his father, an itinerant German baker, had drunk a glass of cold water one summer afternoon, lain down to rest, and died, as we children were told, because the ice water froze the marrow around his heart. We were never clear as to the exact nature of the anatomical area involved, but it was a long time before I could drink a glass of ice water and then lie down without misgivings s to the certainty of my subsequent arising."

Walter married Anna Barbara Franz on 24 Aug 1870 in Robertson Co, Texas. Anna (daughter of Peter Franz and Barbara (..) Franz) was born on 25 Sep 1853 in Kassel, Germany; died on 24 Nov 1930 in Waco, McLennan Co, Texas; was buried on 26 Nov 1930 in Greenwood Cem, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 2 Jan 1858, "The Julius," Bremen, Germany; New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 16 Jul 1860, Robertson Co (Precinct 3), Texas; P.O. Sterling
• Census: 28 Aug 1870, Robertson Co (Precinct 1), Texas
• Census: 1880, Robertson Co, Texas
• Residence: 1894, 625 South 9th, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas
• Census: 1900, McLennan Co (Precinct 1), Texas

Notes:

As written by granddaughter Mary Ann "Nona" Stricker in her journal, Texas Girlhood, of her grandmother who was widowed with seven young children, "Grandma also had to find salaried employment. She spent long hours sewing uniforms for college students at Baylor University, leaving her own mother, Grossmutter Frans, to tyrannize over and harangue the seven fatherless Strickers."

Immigration:
Anna Francis 2 Jan 1858 4 Female Bremen, Germany Julius New Orleans, Louisiana M259_45
Barbara Francis 2 Jan 1858 30 Female Bremen, Germany Julius New Orleans, Louisiana M259_45
Peter Francis 2 Jan 1858 34 Male Bremen, Germany Julius New Orleans, Louisiana M259_45 locksmith


Census:
Peter France 36 1824 Bavaria blacksmith 100, 300
Barbary 33 1827 Bavaria
Anna B. 7 1853 Bavaria
John 3 1858 Bavaria


Census:
residence 135
Franz, Bettie 48 housekeeper, 500 Baden
father and mother of foreign born checked
Franz, Anna B. 10 1860 Baden
Franz, Peter 8 1862 Texas

residence 196
Stucker, Warner 25 1845 Bremen
Stephenson, Andrew 22 1848 London

(Ancestry translated Franz as Frank)

Census:
W. Stricker 37 merchant Prussia Prussia Prussia
A.B. Stricker 26 Prussia Prussia Prussia
H. Stricker 4 daughter Texas
Walter Stricker 2 Texas
Henry Stricker 5m Texas
Barbara Franz 53 mother in law Prussia Prussia Prussia
Peter Franz 18 bro in law Texas Prussia Prussia Prussia
Jacob Kling 45 boarder baker Alsces Alsces Alsces
M. Klein 27 boarder clerk in store Prussia Prussia Prussia


Residence:
Stricker Annie B (wid W.), r 625 S 9th
Stricker Henry J., appc upholsterer, h. Mrs. A.B. Stricker.
Stricker Herman, trav slsmn, h. Mrs. Annie B. Stricker
Stricker Peter W., appc plumber J.S. Brazelton & Co, h Mrs. A.B. Stricker
Stricker Walter W., clk John Cummins, h. Mrs. A.B. Stricker.


Census:
(District 1, east of Brazos River excl Waco City)
Annie B. Stricker 47 Sep 1853 widowed Germany Germany Germany
10 births, 7 living, immigrated 1859 (41 yrs ago)
can read/write/speak English
Walter W Stricker Jan 1878 22 Texas
Peter W Stricker Sep 1882 17 Texas
Annie D.C. Stricker Nov 1884 15 Texas
Hellen B. Stricker 14 Jan 1886 Texas



Died:
d.c., Mrs. Annie Barbara Stricker, age 77, widowed; 1620 North 15th St. Waco in Waco for 42 years
born Germany; father Peter Franz, Germany, and mother Barbara - - - , Germany.
informant, H.J. Stricker, Waco, Texas

(died at Stricker's home)




Buried:
Greenwood Cemetery:
STRICKER,Annie Franz F 1854 1930
married 1874 Mr. STRICKER father: FRANZ

Notes:

Married:
Texas Marriages 1837-1973
Werner Stricker Annie B Franz 24 August 1870, Robertson, Texas

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Grimes Co, Texas
• Census: 9 Aug 1860, Marlin P.O., Falls Co, Texas
• Military: 1862, Falls County, Texas
• Other-Begin: Abt 1865, Alabama (possibly); per journal
• Census: 11 Aug 1870, Harris Co, Texas
• Census: Jun 1880, McLennan Co (District 106), Texas
• Census: 8 Jun 1900, Marlin (Ward 1), Falls Co, Texas
• Residence: 8 Jun 1900, Coleman Street, Marlin, Falls Co, Texas

Notes:

Related in the journal written by his granddaughter, Mary Ann "Nona" Stricker, "Texas Girlhood, she writes, "Years earlier her father (Runie, her mother) had returned home to Alabama from four years of fighting for the South to find his wife dead and his children scattered - he long knew not where. A lasting injury, suffered when his abdomen was pierced by a saddle horn during a cavalry charge, added to his woes. But he gathered the pieces of his broken heart and health, and with a characteristic masculine capacity for recovery rushed off to Texas and into a second marriage. Soon he had added to his adventure two more children and a divorce."

Note, no census records record him in Alabama. His first wife did die, and from census records, it appears he was in Texas. He did remarry and lived in Harris County near his 2nd wife's extended family, along with children from the first marriage. Unknown where this misinformation generated.

The journal continues...
"Undaunted either by age, ill health, or by previous matrimony catastrophe, and perhaps impelled by a fear of an approaching old age unsoftened by feminine companionship, William Moore went in search of a third wife. It wasn't long before he met and married Grandma (Mary Madden Jones Norton),a childless widow of thirty-six who had spent the Civil War years mothering several orphaned brothers and sisters."

__________________________________


http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/TAYLOR/1998-12/0912965886


____________________________
from Paula

I think I may have a breakthrough on William Calhoun Moore's ancestors, too, using some of the information you had sent to me. I eliminated the notion about Zachary Taylor this afternoon, but used his supposed kinswoman to find the proper family for her. Phillis Taylor, born in 1754, married Joshua Moore, and their son Samuel is William Calhoun's father, it looks like that at any rate. The family was all born in Delaware, then packed up and moved to Georgia. Phillis' grandfather was William Taylor of Somerset, Md. (died by Oct. 1773); Joshua's parents are Joshua Moore and Temperence Wailes.

At least, that's what this more plausible genealogical chart looks like. It comes with copious notes, and the notes are very confusing and use several varieties of enumeration, and I'm still trying to sort that out. These charts don't PROVE anything, of course, but is makes no claim to important people, includes much of a family that was already in that Rogers family tree on rootsweb (but the date errors are gone). Nothing has been proved, with this new genealogy, but one census record for William C. Moore did indicate that his father was born in Delaware. That sounded like a mistake to me, but I tucked it into a cubby hole in my brain as a possible clue. :)

Here is the web page. I'm sure you want to see it!

http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/TAYLOR/1998-12/0912965886

Yours, Paula


Census:
John Kelly 39 Georgia
Ann Kelly 24 (Ann America Moore) Georgia
Lucy G Kelly 12 Georgia
Franklin B Kelly 8 Georgia
Daniel Kelly 0 Texas
Wm C Moore 19 1831 Georgia (bro to Ann America)
H Loftin 38 1812 South Carolina


Census:
Moore, W.C. 28 farmer 1370, 500 GA
Eliza 26 MS
E. 8 female TX
James 4 TX
Lucy 2 TX
Rosa 11/12 TX (Stella Rosa)
Nancy Dodd 21 AL



Military:
From: "Roccie"
To:
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 4:26 AM
Subject: Wc Moore info


Hi Sherry,
Here's a little more I found out. He fought for the confederacy as part of waller's regiment mustered out of falls county. He was in company b (Thomas Hightower's company), and this was a cavalry regiment. Moore was a sergeant.
All the best,
Roccie=

6/16/13 (Roccie)
"when he returned to Texas after the war, his wife, Eliza, was dead, and his children were scattered around."


Other-Begin:
comment: Texas Girlhood, pg 3, written by his granddaughter- stated he had returned to Alabama "from four years of fighting for the south to find his wife dead and his children scattered he knew not where."

(from Paula)
His wife had died in '64, she was last known to be in Texas, having had a child in 1863 in Texas. Had she moved to Alabama with the children while he was in the war? What was the connection to Alabama? He was from Georgia and she from Mississippi; but their first child was born in Texas 1851.

Whatever the facts that had played out about 'Alabama' seem to not be known now, but he obviously did find his children as they were all livng with him and his 2nd wife by the 1870 census in Harris county. He had married her in 1866.

His war record has not been found.

Census:
residence 633
Moore, W.C. 39 1831 Georgia farmer
Moore, Rebecca 38 1832 Indiana
Moore, E.P. 18 1852 Texas (Evelyn Polk)
Moore, James 14 1856 Texas
Moore, L.J. 12 1858 Texas (Lucy)
Moore, Shella 10 1860 Texas (Stella? Rosa)
Eliza 3 1867 Texas
Pellot Abraham 10 1860 Texas (white)
(Must be R Gabriel, Rebecca's son b 18 Jan 1860)


Residence 634
Baker, M.M. 65 male 1805 Tennessee farmer
Baker, T.A. 43 male 1827 Ohio
Baker, George 8 1862 Texas


residence 630
Pillot Edmond 62 1808 black male VA
Pillot, Mary 45 1825 Mulatto Tennessee
Pillot, Sallie 13 1857 Mulatto Texas
Pillot, Landis 9 1861 female Mulatto TX
Eliza 6 1864 Mulatto TX
Margareth 4 1866 Mulatto TX
Sophie 11/12 1870 black Texas


residence 639
Deschaumes, Francis 48 1822 France
Deschaumes, Mary 29 1841 Texas
Deschaumes, Caroline 17 1853 Texas
Deschaumes, Emilie 15 1855 Texas
Deschaumes, Julia 14 1856 Texas
Deschaumes, Augusta 12 1858 Texas
Deschaumes, Alfred 10 160 Texas
Deschaumes, Victoria 8 1862 Texas
Deschaumes, Henry 4 1866 Texas
Davis, David 13 1857 Texas
Davis, Mary 11 1859 Texas
Davis, Lucy 9 1851 Texas
Deschaumes, Marianna 11/12 1869 Texas
Barclay, P.O. 19 1851 Louisiana

comment: Texas Girlhood, written by his granddaughter- stated he had returned to Alabama "from four years of fighting for the south to find his wife dead and his children scattered he knew not where."

His wife had died in '64, she was last known to be Texas, having had a child in 1863 in Texas. Had she moved to Alabama with the children while he was in the war? Whatever the facts that had played out about Alabama seem to not be known now, but he obviously did find his children as they were livng with him and his 2nd wife by the 1870 census in Harris county. He had married her in 1866.


Census:
Jun 1880 McLennan Co (District 106), Texas

Moore, W.C. 49 1831 farmer Georgia -- --
Mary M. 36 1844 Missouri Missouri Missouri

("W" in W.C. Moore, faded and handwriting looks like "N" C. Moore.)


Census:
08 Jun 1900 Marlin, Ward No. 1, Falls Co, Texas

res 118 Moore, William C May 1831 69 married 20
Georgia, Delaware Georgia
Mary M wife Nov 1842 57 married 20 2 births 1 living Missouri Illinois Illinois
(her parents were not born in Illinois. She would have known that. Andrew also stated in his 1880 census that father was born in Illinois and mother in Texas)

next page:
308 Capps
residence 126
Walter E Hunnicutt 34 Jun 1865 Texas TN TN
Mattie Hunnicutt 25 Jun 1874 Alabama
Emmitt K Hunnicutt 4 Oct 1895 son
Mary Watley 30 black servant divorced Texas
Mattie Crawford 24 black servant widowed Texas
Charlie Crawford 6 black son of Mattie


Buried:
Greenwood Cemetery, Waco (Bellmead),McLennan Co. Texas
Submitted by Nancy K. Carter ppp@theplaces.com
http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/mclennan/cemeteries/greenwood.txt

MOORE,W. C. [CSA] male born 1840 died 1864 m MOORE,Mary M.
(CSA = Confederate States of America)

MOORE,Mary M. born 1843 died 1920 married MOORE,W.C. [CSA]

(note: we have his b.d. as 1831 from census and he was alive in 1900 census. Dates are not correct on this Greenwood Cemetery transcription.)

William married Mary Madden Jones on 10 Jun 1880 in McLennan Co, Texas. Mary (daughter of Mabra* Madden Jones, Rev and Sarah* Lovelady) was born in 1843 in Missouri; died on 05 Oct 1920 in Waco, McLennan Co, Texas; was buried in Greenwood Cem, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 20 Aug 1850, Victoria, Victoria Co, Texas
• Residence: 15 Jan 1856, Manahuilla, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Religion: 7 Aug 1856, Yorktown, Dewitt Co, Texas; joined Christian Church
• Residence: 14 Dec 1856, Yorktown, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 6 Feb 1860, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 11 Jul 1860, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Census: 13 Jul 1860, Dewitt Co, Texas
• Residence: 14 Aug 1861, Middletown, Goliad Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 10 Oct 1862, Middletown, Goliad Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 22 Dec 1862, Middletown, Goliad Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 8 Dec 1866, Terryville, Lavaca Co, Texas; per letter
• Census: 1870, Texas; cannot find
• Residence: 17 Oct 1870, Oak Hill (near LaGrange), Fayette Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 18 Dec 1870, Oak Hill (near LaGrange), Fayette Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 25 Mar 1871, Oak Hill (near LaGrange), Fayette Co, Texas
• Residence: 23 Apr 1871, Oak Hill (near LaGrange), Fayette Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 25 Aug 1872, Oak Hill (near LaGrange), Fayette Co, Texas; per letter (Rabb family)
• Residence: Abt May 1877, maybe Oak Hill (near LaGrange), Fayette Co, Texas
• Census: Jun 1880, McLennan Co (District 106), Texas
• Residence: Between 1886 and 1887, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas; not in city directory
• Residence: Between 1892 and 1893, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas; not in city directory
• Residence: Abt 1894, Palestine, Anderson Co, Texas; per journal
• Census: 08 Jun 1900, Marlin (Ward 1), Falls Co, Texas
• Residence: 8 Jun 1900, Coleman Street, Marlin, Falls Co, Texas
• Other-Begin: 10 Jun 1901, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas; reunion
• Residence: Abt 1914, Burleson Co, Texas
• Other-Begin: 1918, Family Reunion, Palestine, Anderson Co, Texas; summer
• Census: 17 Jan 1920, Waco (Ward 6), McLennan Co, Texas

Notes:

A letter from Mary (apparently written around 1863-1864) goes thus: "We are all about to leave this country. Pap (James) and Grandma talk of going to the mountains. They have sold their cattle." There seems to have been a terrible drought that caused many people to leave that area.
Added in a postscript at the beginning of the letter is, "I have got the sweetest little brother. He can sit alone. He is as fat as a pig." That must have been Henry at several months old.
Apparently she had been married previously to a Mr. Norton. They had moved to Oak Hill near LaGrange, Texas. After several years, they moved to North Texas, then moved back. Mary was living in Burleson Co about 1914. According to the n item, Mary had married a Moore and Sue had married a Linthicum.
Mary never had any children (by choice), and I am of the opinion that the friction between her and Mabry was because she married and did not continue to take care of his "four little motherless boys" as she put it (which would have been Cyrus abt 11, Stephen abt 9, Andrew abt 6, Henry abt 1).
Anyway, she tried to get one of the boys, as George and Sue did. In another letter, she complains that Mabry had given George and Susan a brother to keep, but had refused to give her one.
Mabry farmed the boys out at times, some of them to my great-grandmother Susan. But the 1870 Census reveals that Stephen and Andrew were living with Mabry and Martha then, as well as daughter Nancy and Nellie (b 1864 & 1868) and the 1880 lis a son Joel A, born November 28, 1874.

Stephen's letter of Jan 19 1916 mentions "Mary, Sue and myself reside here" - Waco, McLellan Co.

After Mary was widowed and in her senior years, she lived with her daughter Runie and family, the Strickers. Granddaughter Mary "Nona" Stricker wrote a journal entitled "Texas Girlhood" and wrote of her grandmother,
page 36
"Grandmohter was a wonder despite several disabling physical afflictions with which she lived for many years. One of these ailments directly influenced the expansive rotundity of her unrestrained middle - all stomach to our anatomically untutored minds. She found irrepressible joy in living, and laughed long and often with such gusto that her "stomach" shook without solemnity, much to our delight. Though sevent-five and mostly sedentary, Grand had the appetite of an adolescent boy. How she enjoyed food! And why not? She still had all her own teeth, and a handsome set they were although no dentist had ever had a closeup of them.

"Grandma's chief source of joy was her family of brothers and a sister. When we were very young we used to wonder why she and great aunt and Susie always cried when they met after being separated for even a short (page 37) while. Grandma and these brothers and this sister she had mothered formed in their later yers the nucleus of the Jones family reunion. How they adored each other and reveled in being together - Mary (Grandma),Stephen, Cyrus, Andrew, Henry, and Susie. The several half-brothers and sisters were also welcomed, as were, of course all the children, grandchildren, and in-laws. They loved to sing and enjoy most of the songs of the Sacred Harp. First, the notes of the traditional Do-Re-Mi and Fa-sol-la tunes were named and sung. Then the words.

"Our five room house was headquarters for one year's retunion. Of course we couldn't sleep them all, but though parcelled out to other relatives at night, the whole crowd ate, sand and enjoyed each other at our house during the days of the customary week. When Grandma died at seventy-seven, the joyous circle was broken, and it seemed to be understood there would be no more Jones family reunions."
(complete journal attached)

Some samples of the sounds of Sacred Harp singing are here:
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/sounds/



Birth:
birth date from 1900 Falls Co, census.

Census:
20 Aug 1850 Victoria, Victoria Co, Texas
1850 - Victoria Co census:
M.M. Jones 30 Blacksmith 300 KY
Sarah 30 MO
G.W. Jones 9 MO
Mary A 7 TX
Susan M 4 TX
Nancy J 2 TX
Richard Bonum 22 Blacksmith MO (b 1828)
Catherine Seber 9 DEU (Germany)

next door, John (37) and Catherine (39) Seber, from Germany. Probably the Jones had taken in their child for some neighborly reason

Census:
residence 298
Mabra Jones 40 1820 blacksmith 3500 1500 Kentucky
checked "attended school within the year"
Sarah 39 1821 Missouri
George W. 19 1841 Missouri
Mary M 17 1843 Missouri
Susan D. 13 1847 Texas
Cyrus 8 1852 Texas
Stephen L. 6 1854 Texas
Andrew 3 1857 Texas
M.H. 5/12 1860 Texas

residence 302
James Lovelate 62 1798 minister 300 1,000 Tennessee
Nancy 60 1800 South Carolina

(Ancestry translators had the Jones name spelled Louer, Mabre and Lovelady was written as Lovelate.)


Residence:
Mary talks of a Rabb family in a letter to her aunt Susan Bounds Butts.

1860 Dewitt Co, Texas
residence 298 - Mabra and Sarah Jones
residence 299 M. and Elizabeth Parker
residence 300 A.H. and Elizabeth Parker

residence 301 (parents of Malissa Jones Rabb)
Enoch Jones 74 1786 farmer Delaware
Nancy Jones 67 1793 N Carolina
Lewis B. Jones 1838 22 Mississippi
Ulesses Rabb 29 1831 Texas <<<
Malissa Rabb (Jones) 27 1833 Mississippi
Paul M. Rabb 10/12 1859 Texas
N.B. Steddom 1847 Texas (grandson Napoleon Bonepart Steddum/Steddom, son of Mary)

residence 302 Lovelate (Lovelady) James & Nancy
residence 303 G.W. & Ellena Jacobs
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1870 West of Caldwell Road, Fayette, Texas
pg 15
residence 89
Ulyses Rabb 39 1831 Texas farmer 100
Malissa Rabb 37 1833 Mississippi
L B Rabb 13 1857 Texas
P M Rabb 11 1859 Texas
R H Tollmson 17 1853 Texas
Nancy Jones 75 1795 North Carolina

also res 15
J.W. Rabb 35 TX
Kittie 22 TX
Mina 1 1869
Wm J. 1/12 1870
also res 132
Rabb, Virgil S. 30 miller and Dulce 21 TX

(Mary (Jones) Norton not in this township)
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1880 La Grange, Lafayette Co, Texas
location listed is the county jail
Rabb U. White Male 47 abt 1833 Self (Head)Self Married
jailer, sheriff Texas Pennsylvania Pennsylvania
Rabb M. White Female 36 abt 1844 Wife Married Mississippi Massachusetts Massachusetts
Rabb Lee White Male 21 abt 1859 Son Single Texas Texas Mississippi
Rabb Paul White Male 20 abt 1860 Son Single deputy sheriff Texas Texas Mississippi
(also listed 8 prisoners)
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http://bkatbird2.tripod.com/id2.html (source of picture)
"Ulysses Rabb, son of Thomas J. and Serena (Gilbert) Rabb was born on Aug. 12, 1830, in the Colorado Dist. of Stephen F. Austin's Colony. He was known to family and friends as "Wit" Rabb. He served as Sheriff of Fayette County from 1876 to 1880. He died on Jan. 14, 1887."
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http://camelotrr.com/heathcock.org/genealogy/ps07/ps07_389.html
Melissa Edna Jones b 12 Jun 1833 MS
father Enoch Jones 1785 NC - >1860 Walker Co, TX
mother Nancy Swain 1793 - >1870
m Ulesses Rabb 18 Aug 1855 Dewitt Co.
children Lee Bell 1857-1936
notes: It appears that Melissa Edna Jones was first married to Absolem Tumlinson but they must have divorced after the birth of Mary Ellen Tumlinson in 1850. She married Ulysses Rabb in Colorado in 1855. Her children by both husbands were living with Melissa's parents, Enoch and Nancy (Swain) Jones, at the time of the 1860 census (see miscellaneous note on the record of Enoch Jones). Absolem Tumlinson remarried and lived until 1889.

Enoch Jones 23 Oct 1785 NC
d aft 13 Aug 1860 Walker Co, TX age 74
father Ebenezer Jones 1763 - 1862
mother Mary Wroten 1762 - 1829
m Nancy Swain b 29 Jul 1793 NC

Name Ebenezer Jones , GGG Grandfather
Birth 21 Jan 1763, Kent County, Dover, Delaware278,279
Death 9 Mar 1862, Washington, Daviess Co, IN278 Age: 99
Burial Odd Fellows Cemetery, Washington, IN280
Burial Old City Cemetery, Washington, IN

Ebenezer Jones son of Zachariah Jones and Ellen Smith
Name Zachariah Jones, GGGG Grandfather
Birth ca 1735
Death 1789, Mispillion Hundred, Kent Co DE Age: 54
Ulysses Rabb: 1830 TX - 14 Jan 1887 Fayette TX (age 57)

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Nancy Swain b 29 Jul 1793 NC
father Elizar Swain
mother Ann Swift

1780 Tyrrell County, North Carolina
Eleazar Swain
Name on a petition, 20 Oct 1779, to the General Assembly from inhabitants of Tyrrell County asking that the county be divided to form a new county called Buncombe County because of the difficulty in a...
also signed that petition:
Cornelus; John, John, Lovick?

1800 Eleazar Swain
Washington Co, NC
10 in his household:
male age 45 and over 1
female 26-44 1
male 16-25 1
female 10-15 2
females <10 2
slaves 3

also John Swain
1810
Capt Joseph Lewis, Washington Co, NC
& Thomas Swain

Residence:
Frances living in Red Rock, dates her letter simply "May." Guessing this is about 1877. She writes to Susan Bounds Butts
"Pap started down to Lavaca about two or three weeks ago. He went by Mary's. I expect he will stay there some time. I got a letter from Mary the same day I got yours. She was well and doing well."
Leonard surmised Mary was in Burleson, but that would not be enroute from Red Rock to Lavaca. Perhaps this was after Nancy died, or perhaps it was after Mr. Norton died. Mary might have still been living near LaGrange.

Census:
Jun 1880 McLennan Co (District 106), Texas

Moore, W.C. 49 1831 farmer Georgia -- --
Mary M. 36 1844 Missouri Missouri Missouri



Residence:
bet 1886 and 1887
Stephen Jones is not listed in 1884 edition of city directory
Henry Jones is not listed
(No Jones in our family is listed)
Moore - William C and Mary (Jones) are not listed
Lithicum - none listed
Stapp - none are listed
Stricker - none are listed


Residence:
from "Texas Girlhood" by granddaughter, Mary Ann "Nona" Stricker, "When Mama (Runie) was bout ten the family went to live with Grandma's younger brother in Palestine, Texas. This didn't prove to be the promised land either. To make the arrangements business like, Grandma was to do the cooking for the combined families, which numbered some eleven Jones and Moores. Things bumped along the inevitably rough road until Mama, with a child's lack of discretion, caused a conflagration with consumed the slight store of amenities left."
note: this would be her baby brother Henry and his family. The story relates an altercation between Runie and Ethel, Henry's oldest child.

attached journal for the related incident, page 4)

Census:
08 Jun 1900 Marlin, Ward No. 1, Falls Co, Texas

res 118 Moore, William C May 1831 69 married 20
Georgia, Delaware Georgia
Mary M wife Nov 1842 57 married 20 2 births 1 living Missouri Illinois Illinois
(her parents were not born in Illinois. She would have known that. Andrew also stated in his 1880 census that father was born in Illinois and mother in Texas. However, 1920 she states both parents born in Kentucky)

Other-Begin:
(see notes about reunion on her father Mabra Madden Jones page)

Census:
17 Jan 1920
Henry J Stricker 40 Texas Germany Germany merchant furniture
Bunie M Stricker 38 [37] 1902 Texas Georgia Missouri
Henry J Stricker 16 1904
Mary A Stricker 14 [17] 1906
Eugene M Stricker 11 1909
Mary M Stricker 76 1844 wid Missouri Kentucky Kentucky

Died:
d.c. age 77, widow, retired, born Missouri
father, Mabra Madden, b Kentucky
mother's maiden name: Sarah, birthplace -- don't know
informant, Mrs. H.J. Stricker, Waco, Texas
(this would be her daughter)

Mary's granddaughter, Mary, called Nona, wrote a journal called "Texas Girlhood." Mary, age 77, was living with her daughter Runie and Nona was 15 years old. She wrote of that night when Mary died, "When Grandma died at seventy-seven, the joyous circle (yearly reunions at alternating homes) was broken, and it seemed to be understood there would be no more Jones family reunions.
"One midnight in 1921, I was startled awake by cries of discress. I called Mama and Papa and we rushed to Grandma's room. But she was already only partially conscious. After seventy-seven years, her merry heart had just stopped beating. She couldn't have known for long that the time for her departure had come. And that was well. she loved life but not for the material blessings it had bestrowed on her. The only tangible legacy she left us was, rather appropriately, a piano. She had made what seemed at the time an even trade when she deeded Uncle Henry a lot in south Houston for the charred remains of a piano, the interior of which he had rehabilitated. Papa remade and refinished the exterior. It was something of a disappointment to the eye, but its tone made one forget that."


Buried:
Greenwood Cemetery, Waco (Bellmead),McLennan Co. Texas
Submitted by Nancy K. Carter ppp@theplaces.com
http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/mclennan/cemeteries/greenwood.txt

MOORE,W. C. [CSA] male born 1840 died 1864 m MOORE,Mary M.
(CSA = Confederate States of America)

MOORE,Mary M. born 1843 died 1920 married MOORE,W.C. [CSA]